NAME

       foomatic-ppdfile - Generate a PPD file for a given printer/driver combo

SYNOPSIS

       foomatic-ppdfile [-w] [-d <driver>] -p <printerid>
       foomatic-ppdfile [-A] [-P pattern]
       foomatic-ppdfile -h

DESCRIPTION

       The first form of the foomatic-ppdfile to compute the spooler-independent Foomatic PPD file for any valid
       printer/driver combo available in the Foomatic database, both for printing with foomatic-rip(1)  and  for
       applications/clients  being  able  to access the printer's options.  The PPD file is returned on standard
       output.  If the driver is not specified, the default driver is used.

       The second form of the foomatic-ppdfile program will search the printer database and  return  either  all
       printer entries or those whose name and/or model information match a regular expression.

       The last form prints a help message and exits.

   Options
       -d drivername
            The  (optional) driver name to use.  If the driver name is not supplied, the default or first driver
            in the printers compatible driver list is used.

       -p   printer id The printer id.

       -w   Return a PPD file that conforms to the Microsoft Windows format limitations.

       -A   Return all printer entries in the database.

       -Ppattern
            Return all printer entries in the database which match the regular expression.

       SEE ALSO
              foomatic-rip(1)

EXIT STATUS

       foomatic-ppdfile returns 0 on success, 1 otherwise.

AUTHOR

       Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated
       binary.

       Modified and updated by Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>.

BUGS

       None so far.

       Please post bug reports on

       http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic